Wretched Excess, and String the knitting Thing

**string** · 23rd January 08, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by cacunn

Thanks I'll get a copy next payday.

Pick me up one too will ya. I don't see regular paydays in my near future at all.

**cacunn** · 24th January 08, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by string

Pick me up one too will ya. I don't see regular paydays in my near future at all.

PM me your address and I will see what I can do.

**string** · 24th January 08, 09:10 PM

3 Repeats of the cable pattern done, which translates as about 1/3 of the cuff... If I am eyeballing the work right. Not bad for being medicated yet again, tis too cold for Stringy's poor lungs. If not too cold, too windy, we've had 5-10 MPH winds with temperatures in the teens all week.

**BoldHighlander** · 24th January 08, 10:06 PM

Originally Posted by BluesDoxieGa

Cacunn, the book 'Designs for Knitting Kilt Hose and Knickerbocker Stockings' by Veronica Gainford has instructions for a couple of cable band cuffs. It's a good purchase for $15 on Amazon.

I'm going to have to look into this book too *if* for no other reason than for those checkered hose on the cover. Very much like some that Matt Newsome's wife made for him & that I've been coveting ever since!

**Brian F** · 25th January 08, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by BoldHighlander

[FONT="Georgia"][COLOR="DarkGreen"]I'm going to have to look into this book too *if* for no other reason than for those checkered hose on the cover. Very much like some that Matt Newsome's wife made for him & that I've been coveting ever since!

Aye, BH, I agree. I have want hose such as those (and many other things) through Matt's posts/blog (and, again, the posts of others). There is one thing I have learned over my short time here at the rabble: A jones is bad enough, but when you're jonesing for things with no foreseeable time line for them arriving, it's even worse!!!

~Yeti

**cacunn** · 25th January 08, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by Yeti

A jones is bad enough, but when you're jonesing for things with no foreseeable time line for them arriving, it's even worse!!!

~Yeti

Yeti
You have a great teacher right there, have String teach you to knit. A family that knits together stays together or something like that.

**string** · 25th January 08, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by cacunn

Yeti
You have a great teacher right there, have String teach you to knit. A family that knits together stays together or something like that.

I agree! My mama taught me to knit, now I knit better than her. I would be happy to teach Yeti to knit, he is unwilling to try because he expected to be a master at it on the first go.

**Brian F** · 25th January 08, 10:52 AM

Originally Posted by string

I would be happy to teach Yeti to knit, he is unwilling to try because he expected to be a master at it on the first go.

I do not expect to be a master the first time. I simply expected to make my big broken hands work a little better.

I'll stick with shooting, writing, and video games, for now. Maybe boxing and caber throwing in the future.

~Yeti

**string** · 31st January 08, 03:16 PM

What is this? one very awkwardly modeled sock, on a leg waaay to small for it. The important part is that it is a finished sock, and all I have left to do is knit the cuff on the other sock and give them a bit o' a wash and block and they will be done.

Taunting? why yes, yes I am.

**Alan H** · 31st January 08, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by string

What is this? one very awkwardly modeled sock, on a leg waaay to small for it. The important part is that it is a finished sock, and all I have left to do is knit the cuff on the other sock and give them a bit o' a wash and block and they will be done.

Taunting? why yes, yes I am.

**PANT, PANT, PANT***

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